British Industrial Systems

As steam traction was run down on BR lines, so interest in industrial systems rose. There were many places around the country with a wealth of ancient and modern machines still hard at work in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Here are just a few to start with, the pictures are in chronological order, oldest first. Plenty more to be added!

Barclay 0-6-0T "Will" No. 999/1904 shunts in the yard at Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland on Tuesday 3rd August 1965. This was one of the last pits in the area, not closing until 1994. The building behind the loco is the "Mill House Inn", now renamed "The Halfway House" and still extant on Southwick Road. Where the loco is standing is now the A1290 "Keir Hardie Way" and behind the camera is now the "Stadium of Light" on the site of the colliery. Slide No. 1542.